Can-righter.



E. J. VAUX.

CAN RIGHTEB.

APPLICATION HLED MAY 25, 19M.

q a m W r M m Dela.

. .D\ 5155 o N o 7 5 4 8 1 EDGAR J. VAUX, O'F FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA.

GAN-BIG-HTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

Application filed May 25, 1914. Serial No. 840,700.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR J. VAUX, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Faribault, in the county of Rice and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Can-Righters, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in can-righters or devices bywhich cans are automatically thrown from a horizontal to a verticalposition; and an object of this invention is to provide a can-righterwhich will be simple in construction, comparatively cheap in manufactureand efiicient and durable in operation and use.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of this invention and thebest mode now known to me of applying that principle, Figure 1 is anelevation of so much of a can-righter as is necessary to illustrate thisinvention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the structure shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3is a section on the line A-A of Fig. 2.

The chute or guideway w comprises a pair of angle-bars b, c, fastenedtogether by the base d of a bracket 03. At their lower ends theangle-bars b, a are suitably fastened to theupper end@ of the spoutThisupper end 6 is substantially in the orm of a conical frustum thelarger base of which is uppermost and the lower base of which leads intothe spout proper; that, is, the 'part 6 is trumpet-shaped. From theconical frustum 6 there projects a flange 9 one of the free ends (thatis, an ear) in of which lies close to the lower end of the angle-bar c.The spout f is suitably supported, as by the bars 2'. To the upperportion 01 of the bracket d there is fastened one end of a guard-rail jthe lower end of which is fastened to the flange 9 (Fig. 2)

' The operation of my new can-righter is as follows: Cans is are placedupon the gravity-track or chute with the tops of the cans lylng all onthe same side of the track. The cans under the influence of gravity rolldown the track until the top of one of the cans strikes the ear h of theflange 9. When the can is in this position, the bottom of the can isfree fromthe angle-bar b; and the result of the contact with or strikingagainst the flange lb is to throw the can into a vertical position. Asthe filler takes the lowermost can from the bottom of the spout, thelowermost one of the cans in the chute is thrown into a verticalposition and into the spout e.

My new canmighter is made in two forms,-a right-hand righter and alefthand righter. The only difference between these two forms consistsin the placing of the flange h and the chute a on the opposite side ofthe upper end e of the spout f.

I claim:

A can-righter including a chute down which "the can rolls; adownwardly-extending spout mounted at the outlet end of said chute andformed at its upper end with a trumpet-shaped mouth; and a flange forthe latter, said flange being formed with an ear that is interposed inthe path of one end of the can and shaped to effect in conjunction withthe force of gravity the turning of the can into an upright position inthe spout.

Signed at Faribault, in the county of Rice and State of Minnesota, this18th day of May, A. D. 1914, in the presence of the two undersignedwitnesses.

EDGAR J. VAUX.

Witnesses:

CHAs. S. BATCHELDER, CHARLES R. ALBIE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained tor'five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

